Reading list for Washington Preparatory School English Program
1) Maya Angelou: I know Why the Caged Bird Sings
2) WH Auden: Poems
3) Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice
4) William Blake: Songs of Innocence and paintings
5) Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
6) Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
7) Raymond Carver: Elephant and his Poems
8) Chinese Poems from Tang Dynasty (618-907)
9) Kate Chopin: The Awakening
10) Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
11) Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
12) Roald Dahl: Matilda, Danny the Champion of the World
13) Emily Dickinson: I Felt a Funeral in My Brain
14) T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
15) Ralph Ellison: Invisible Man
16) William Faulkner: As I lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury
17) E.M. Foster: A Room with a View, Howards End and A Passage to India.
18) Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken and other poems
19) Betty Friedman: The Feminine Mystique
20) Northrop Frye: Educated Imagination (new from IB Workshop)
21) Kahlil Gibran: The Prophet
22) William Golding: Lord of the Flies
23) Japanese Haiku Poems
24) Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls
25) Shirley Jackson: The Lottery
26) Franz Kafka: Metamorphosis
27) Yusef Komunyakaa: Poems
28) Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
29) Li-Young Lee- Poems
30) John Lennon’s poems
31) Naguib Mahfouz: The Thief and the Dogs (new)
32) Arthur Miller: The Death of a Salesman
33) Toni Morrison: Beloved, The Bluest Eye
34) Cormac McCarthy: The Road (new)
35) Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the Shore (new)
36) Ahmed Fouad Negm: The Revolutionary Poet of the People (new)
37) Jehane Noujain: The Square (Film, 2013) (new)
38) Tim O’Brien: The Things They Carried
39) George Orwell: 1984, Animal Farm, Down and Out in Paris and London